Comments on: Adding Excel Chart Data

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:28:15 +0000

Praveen - Use the Dot Plot technique.

By: Praveen

Praveen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:49:07 +0000

Hi. My name is Praveen and I heard about your site while searching for answers to create a break in the y-axis of excel charts. I am still not sure how to go about doing this in regards to my data – since I need to make around 60 charts and adding marker data to each chart will be extremely time consuming, but I have another question. I was wondering how to switch the x and y axis of a chart. I have a .jpg picture of what my chart looks like and how I want the x and y axis switched at this address:

http://www.bananacity.org/media/excelhelp.jpg

your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:34:38 +0000

The dollar signs are very important, because they differentiate between absolute and relative referencing. A dollar sign before the column letter makes the column reference absolute, a dollar sign before the row number makes the row reference absolute, and without the dollar sign, each is relative.

If I have a reference to A1 in a cell, and I copy it to the cell down one row and right one column, the following changes to the formula occur:

original: =A1
copied: = B2

original: = $A$1
copied: =$A$1

original: =$A1
copied: =$A2

original: =A$1
copied: =B$1

By: anne

anne — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:21:23 +0000

thank you very much,
actually the “equation for A-plot” is the formula for A-plot, i’m sorry for that.
yesterday i tried to follow the formula, but i could not get the graph in separate panel. i noticed that in the formula it has dollar sign ($) either like this:$E$, or E$ ;what’s the different between these two?

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:01:52 +0000

Anne -

Given the same layout as in the worksheet described in the Panel with Uneven Scales article, the formula in cell E2 should be

=((B2-E$9)/(E$10-E$9)*E$12+SUM($D$12:D$12))/SUM($E$12:$G$12)

as stated in the article. This cell should then be copied and pasted into the entire region E2:G7.

I don’t know what you mean about my equation for A-plot.

By: anne

anne — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:27:43 +0000

thank you for your guide in building chart using excel,
sorry, this is out of topic…
actually im looking for how to add tertiary axis using excel. i found your good suggestion using panel chart from http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ChartsHowTo/PanelUnevenScales.html
i tried to follow your instructions and applied to my data, unfortunately i cant get as the example. I checked again which step was wrong, finally i found that one of your equation for A-plot was not similar with what had been returned in the cells E2:G7.
Can you explain to me what is the correct one?

thank u very much

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:50:59 +0000

Andrew -

Right at the end of the Drag and Drop section, I mention that this capability has been removed from Excel 2007. Perhaps in the next version they’ll be able to reinstate it.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:47:31 +0000

I am unable to drag and drop to insert a new series. Is it because I am using 2007? I am also unable to work out the “Neat Trick”.